you lost me there, see.

a VGA cable is a (subset of?) DB15

same thing as the controller?

and the monitor goes on a printer cable?

this confuses me lol

speaking of mad science... watch out for soldering fumes yo. use lead-free when possible since you're not well-ventilated (basement and all) and if you must use lead take it outside. also watch the rosin.

anyway, i wanna see pictures when you reach the "it's aliiiiiiiiiiive!" stage

I really liked Tekken. That's the one where you fight the little old man who turns into a huge beastmode motherfucker right? The original Tekken? Yeah. That was cool shit.

As for SF, I don't think I ever played past SF2. I've never been a big video game guy, but I totally gave up on fighting games when shit like Goldeneye (N64) and Tenchu Stealth Assasssins (PlayStation) came out. Tenchu was a fucking blast. And Goldeneye was just the best bro game ever. My friends and I would spend days shooting one another, imaging we were honing our skills at some special craft. Then other times you'd be right next to someone with a golden gun and you'd shoot and it would not hit them due to some dumbass glitch, and oh man was that infuriating!

Video games make me angry.

I like BioShock. Or... I liked BioShock when I played it, and since then I have watched it become a major world dominating phenomenon, and I've been interested in the little I've been able to glean about the story line and he characters... dead guys with bunny masks and shit. Steampunk nautical horror with robots. Seems cool.

Also I like Coolboarders and 1080°. Yep. Sports games. Oh! And the first Spurs the Dragon.

https://paradisearcadeshop.com/undam...b-decoder.html

I'm not sure what DB15 n stuff are really used for. But that's what these things used.

As for the soldering, I'll definitely take that precaution...though for the sticks, I don't think there will be too much soldering being done. I'm gonna have quick disconnects on the buttons/sticks so I won't have to go through that trouble every time I need to change one.

oh hell yes. who doesn't?

Not sure if that was Tekken. Sounds like something else. Tekken was 3D.And that game at a competitive level is insanely hard. So much focus on the movement and every character has like 300 moves. Tekken is Korea's game. There's a technique called 'Korean Backdash'. I love video games, but it's so hard to find time for them sometimes. I can barely play single player games because I get too immersed and I have to play it for a few hours. I have like 4 games to beat at the moment and I'm no where near done with the first. This is another reason why I like street fighter, I can play it for 20 minutes and that's it. I don't have to finish any levels or anything. Just whoop some ass and continue figuring out what works and what doesn't. Or just practice inputs/combos for 20 minutes. But I can also play it for 5 hours straight. It's perfect. Also, if you like snowboarding games, please tell me you played SSX.

Yeah....most of the time it's when I'm driving. Other than that, I'm a pretty patient dood.

ha ha ha. don't get tickets, man!

i wanna punch people in the face when they're prejudiced. like the cowboy fucker who asked me how i sneaked into the country. fuck him.

Im pretty sure it was Tekken. I looked up "Tekken old man" on Google and found pictures of the dude in mini-old-guy mode and beast mode (big muscular old guy with upward/outward hair).

Hell yes I played SSX. Only the first one though, for PS2. I see there are shitloads more now. But yeah, I loved snowboarding games. I never got into skateboarding games for some reason. :(

I used to just come home from school, plop myself down with some Aphex Twin or maybe NIN on the discman, and go to town on Coolboarders. I got really fucking good at that game. And Coolboarders 2.

UNFUCKINGBELIVABLE

I decided to book a holiday to Sevilla to get away for a few days. About 10 minutes after booking the flights I realised I'd booked them on the same week both Pharmakon AND Michael Rother were doing gigs. If you asked me to bands I really wanna see that I've not seen yet it'd be them two. Godfuckingdammit. Just...JUST!

Damn....that sucks. Pharmakon is dope.


EDIT: I haven't seen her live, but I sure as hell want to.

I have! She's rad. :D

I still hate the Fucking fuck out of the cover of Abandon though. Jesus. Too Fucking disgusting. Did I ever mention that I thought those maggots were pine nuts for the longest time?

I know. This is actually the third time I've missed her. She was playing ATP and it ended up clashing with Beak> (who ended up touring about a billion times after that), second time is when she had to cancel the tour cos she pretty much died and now this.

I was actually looking at flying to Paris a couple of days beforehand, but there's no way I can justify the cost.

The new one isn't much better!

Hahaha @Sev pine nuts! Seriously? lol I mean I see it now...

Yep. Thought those were pine nuts pouring out of her crotch (I know they're not really doing that in the pic, but that's the suggestion). Imagine my surprise when I put on my glasses and looked more closely...

 

Sure the cover of Contact is still gross, as was the cover of Bestial Burden... gross and unsettling, both... but they do not compare with Abandon. Maggots.... maggots and the explicit suggestion of maggots entering and exiting a woman's nethers.

YOWza. Blarhf. Blarerrrhfaaaaaalloverthefuckingplace!

Seriously disturbing. The new one is just moderator disturbing. Unless there are fucking maggots hidden in THAT one too! Don't tell me there are, bro.

Fuck. I Fucking HATE maggots and my terrible vision and ridiculously bulbous prism lenses. Fuck everything!

every single second of my life

Ugh. I really want to punch the person who fucking crashed into my car last night. I walked out to leave for work to find my car's bumper in pieces on the drivers side and the whole side of my car just missing a bunch of paint.

OH! This is afwr my girlfriend broke the damn washer too.....AGGHHHH

Oh man. That sucks. I suppose it's too much to hope that your company has a private lot with surveillance cameras?

I want to punch several public officials in the face right now. It's been a constant thing for, oh, two-and-a-half months now. For some reason, round about Jan. 20, my urge to punch grew exponentially. It used to just be Drake that I wanted to punch. Now, it's, like... an entire dynasty of fuckwads.

RIP!!
better fix that washer

@Sev I was about to leave for work. It happened in front of my house. :(

I'm in the same boat now apparently. I have a vacation planned in May(21-25) and just got word PHARMAKON is playing TRIP METAL FEST. Which is on the 25th. Fuck. I also have a tournament I'm helping organize that weekend.

Man...it all happened so fast.


My girlfriend and I broke up, it started off well but then went ugly, but it's now calm again. We're still talking and stuff. It turns out she found a job after graduation. It's in Florida. It's nothing permanent, but something to just start building up a resume and credentials to be a Sign Language Interpreter. I don't understand, she hates the heat and the sun. Anyways....I'm happy for her, and I'm now so alone lol. I've been sleeping a lot and I have time off this week, so tomorrow I'm gonna drive to Colorado with my dog. Gonna take him on a little vacation to check out mountains, smoke some weed, and also check out an arcade there. I think my friend who moved to Salt Lake City might meet me up there too...so that'd be cool.

ow maaaan....

bummer

well. look at the upside i guess. :(

speaking of which, here's a fitting song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

Ah man. Heartbreak is the absolute worst. I had it bad this time last year so I know how you're feeling (doesn't everyone?).

However, you've got the pooch and they're always the best friends to have in times like this. Driving to Colorado seems like a fine idea too. Get out of town and clear your head, it's the best thing to do. Especially hill walking and the fresh air.

Chin up and vent away on here if need be.

Great song choice xo

Hey. Couldn't help but read this.

I'm ... uh... I'm actually going through something similar. I haven't mentioned this to anyone yet but my girlfriend of almost a decade is leaving on a soul searching mission of sorts. It's not a breakup, per se, but she is hopping into an RV and venturing out west, and I am, well, not. It's not a surprise or anything. I've known for some time that this was her plan, but like a good guy, I've been swallowing my feelings and not burping them back up. This has of course given me a nasty case of romantic and existential indigestion, and I've been growing increasingly nervous and sullen and depressed as the days/weeks/months pass. She's not yet sure when she's leaving, but she really wants to do this, and I can't say I blame her much after the professional life she's lead (social work was fulfilling, working in a hospital kind of killed her spirit and failed to pay what she was worth, and now she's working for a land-processing -- pipeline building, fracking -- pile of shit behemoth company that pays well but makes her hate herself), so I can see the need to escape. I'm just not in any position to do so myself, and to top it all off, I enjoy my creature comforts too much.

Our situations may be somewhat (or a lot) different if you and your ex are fresh out of college, but if that's the case, look on the bright side... you have a lot of life ahead of you. Me, I'm getting older and more curmudgeonly and less interested in people, so I can't imagine I'll have much luck finding a suitable companion (aside from my own animals) to fill the void. I also live in a tiny ass town where pickins' is slim to say the least.

Enough about me though. I just wanted to say I feel you dawg. Or, rather, I can empathize. And I wish you the best. Don't listen to Broken Social Scene or Built to Spill or Modest Mouse (not even good Modest Mouse... actually, especially not good Modest Mouse). I recommend jubilant hip-hop and emotionless electronic music, coupled with 50-hour work weeks and an HBO Go subscription.

:(

Also I got spanked but good on my taxes this year. No return. Ended up owing in because of freelance (1099-misc) gigs adding up, and a failure on my part to adequately keep track of receipts for deductions. Also I'm up an income bracket from last year, so blah.

God damn motherfucking fuckass piss fuck.

This year man. I tell you. From Trump to replacing my furnace to Justice League looking like a pile of shit and no new Kanye album dropping any time soon, life is quite shit indeed. I was also sick for two weeks. Oh, and I need a new car.

Where's the "Bitch about shit that's pissing you off" thread?

This year, I realized I fucked up my taxes the past several years. Probably owe about a grand. Not sure if I should fess up or wait to be found out. Fucking Trump.

Also lawn mower is fucked, but that doesn't really matter because the front yard is getting close to becoming a swamp due to some weird drainage issue I'm too fucking stupid to figure out. Man, I'm too fucking stupid when it comes to shit that matters.

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Sorry to hear of heartbreak, but this:


sounds more fun than a relationship.

Zabar ordered an MRI scan, which highlights brain areas that have been damaged by a lack of oxygen, or “ischemia.” Inside Max’s skull, he could make out the gray, jello-like silhouettes of various brain regions. But clustered near the center were two glowing orbs of white.
Zabar was shocked. The spots were perfectly localized, on each side of the brain, to the hippocampus, the seahorse-shaped region that encodes new memories. In his 20 years of treating patients with neurological problems, Zabar said, he had never seen anything like it.
That was 2012. Since then, Max’s case has turned out to be the first of an alarming cluster. In Massachusetts alone, doctors have identified 14 people with damaged hippocampi who suddenly lost the ability to form new memories — and 12 of them had a history of using heroin or other opioids.
Next week, Massachusetts public health officials will officially recognize this as a “reportable disease.” That means that for the next year, doctors will alert the state of any new cases, just as they do for infectious diseases like Ebola or Zika, in the hopes of collecting enough data to figure out how many addicts are suddenly losing their memories, and why.
Is it tainted drugs? Or an unknown side effect of the cheap and powerful heroin alternative, fentanyl? A piece of Max’s genetic makeup that made him susceptible to brain damage? Or perhaps something much simpler: a tragic, if unmysterious consequence of exposing the brain to opioids, again and again.

The dr measured me and said I had a oval ass, not what I wanted to hear,but I'll be getting the Stanton ovals, 500cc he said. He told me I could do round but I'd have to sign a piece of paper because he didn't recommend rounds and that my butt would look bad if I got them. Anyway surgery is tomorrow 4-20 ! I'll update after my surgery!

Wait. Wat?

Just got back from CO. Brought some special snacks...

Our local alcoholic mechanic in his glory

Tears

I'm so broke right now. Holy shit. What a terrible feeling. God damn cocksucker. Fuck shit ass.

whoa this thread so many suprises this morning

don't know where to begin replying...

but please, EVERYONE, keep us posted

sorry, it's not me doing the butt implant, I copy/pasted it from somewhere.
I am just boggled how anyone would ever put an implant in his/her ass
I don't get it

this is after there was this fragment on TV about a Dutch reality soap Kardeshian wannabe who was crying that the doctor didn't allow her to get a butt implant.
and her boyfriend said, almost literally: "people don't realise how much we suffer"

Agreed. Do some squats you lazy get if you want a bigger ass that much. Just baffles me.

oh ha ha ha ha

i thought you were like some dutch hank hill suffering from diminished glute, unable to drive your lawnmower!

well that removes some awkwardness

now i'm free to say heart-shaped butts are the best

I want an ostrich now.

how about two Indian elephants? I want to get rid of them asap. Listen to this. EVERY morning I'm woken up by them (my upstairs neighbors) at like 6 AM, so I basically no longer sleep.